undergraduate

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Are your kids undergraduate college funds funded so they don't need to take loans to get a degree?

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Quick take

A student at a university who has not yet received a degree.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of undergraduate gathered in one view.

noun

A student at a university who has not yet received a degree.

adjective

Of, relating to, or being an undergraduate.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for undergraduate.

noun

A student at a university who has not yet received a degree.

adjective

Of, relating to, or being an undergraduate.

Example sentences

Are your kids undergraduate college funds funded so they don't need to take loans to get a degree?

Khan Academy [0] is a fairly well-regarded free resource for high-school and undergraduate level mathematics video lectures.

If you do your undergraduate degree at another university, you can transfer if you're good enough.

There absolutely are problems that require a more rigorous mathematical training than you get from undergraduate courses or day-to-day experience.

Alan Kay has said the same thing on a few occasions (though he did get an undergraduate degree in the subject).

I had an interest in bioinformatics, but my university offered no undergraduate program nor any graduate studies on the matter.

For my part, I'd opt for the 2, based on what I remember about undergraduate students.

Related to your 3rd link [0], we used Time Series Analysis and Its Applications [1] in my undergraduate time series class.

I did a little (undergraduate) research in this area.

Congrats I have comp sci as an undergraduate.

And maybe it's just my experience, but Wittgenstein was always shoved down our throats in my undergraduate and graduate classes, whereas people may have never even heard of Jan Łukasiewicz or Stephen Kleene.

The math guy did an undergraduate degree in mathematics!, so he is hardly a characteristic example of waiters in New York who generally shouldn't expect to achieve a median salary for the industry on their first day.

Quote examples

There's a reason Feynman's lecture on "undergraduate physics" attracted the attention of graduate students.

The well-roundedness should come later, and just like an undergraduate degree is not "Job Training" and postgraduate one doesn't instantly make you a leading scientist.

If you prefer textbooks, I have heard good things about "Linear Algebra Done Right," [1] but I would not recommend it unless you are "math literate" at an undergraduate level already.

Also, from what I saw of other students doing PhD's in the US, they already take several years longer than us in Europe because of the lack of specialisation in undergraduate degrees - they spend the first few years in effect "Catching up".